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Well Undone with Lydia AllabyS2, Ep6 Well Undone: Dr Lucy AphramorFor our final episode of the Season, we are joined by author, radical dietitian and social action poet, Dr Lucy Aphramor. With a PhD in Advancing Critical Dietetics, Lucy developed Well Now – their compassionate, trauma informed approach to public health – while working in the NHS as a community dietitian. A radical voice in weight-inclusive health, Lucy’s practice and teaching focuses on building a society where people of all shapes, genders, ages, races and identities are treated with respect and dignity. And if that wasn’t enough, Lucy is also a talented social action poet – The Naked Dietitian – with standout rev...2021-07-0849 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS2, Ep5 Well Undone: Dr Nadia CraddockOur guest this week is Dr Nadia Craddock. Body image researcher at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of West England, Nadia has expertise in numerous facets of body image, including eating disorders, colourism, fashion warning labels, and so much more. With her PhD focused on body size representation in fashion, advertising and beauty, Nadia is a go-to expert in the area of body image and Corporate Social Responsibility, and is passionate about developing a society where we can all live happier, healthier lives, free of body image anxiety and obsession. From her work developing...2021-07-0153 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS2, Ep4 Well Undone: Dr Alexis ConasonOur guest this week is Dr Alexis Conason. A New York-based clinical psychologist, Alexis specialises in the treatment of eating disorders – often overeating related - which she carries out alongside her extensive research into body image, overeating behaviours, and so much more. Passionate about weight-inclusive care, Alexis founded The Anti-Diet Plan in 2018, a programme designed to help people embrace a mindful, peaceful and compassionate approach to eating and body respect, and is very shortly releasing her new book: The Diet-Free Revolution (sponsor of this Season, no less).In this episode, we talk about the impact Alexis sees in...2021-06-2440 min
Well Undone with Lydia AllabyS2, Ep3 Well Undone: Dr Natasha LarmieOur guest this week is the bold and brilliant Dr Natasha Larmie. Weight-inclusive NHS GP by day and social justice advocate by way of – well, all other hours – Natasha believes passionately in bringing an end to weight stigma in the NHS. A relative newcomer to the Health At Every Size movement, Natasha has generated a significant online following over the past year as the ‘Fat Doctor’, and has since taken on the monumental challenge of speaking up against diet culture, advocating against weight stigma, and encouraging her NHS colleagues to do the same. In this episode, we talk about...2021-06-1754 min
Well Undone with Lydia AllabyS2, Ep2 Well Undone: Virgie TovarOur guest this week is the amazing Virgie Tovar. Author, activist, and one of America’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image, Virgie has truly dedicated her life and academia to ending diet culture and weight discrimination, making few guests more apt to feature on this Season of the podcast. In this episode, we explore fatphobia, and its common misconceptions. From feminism and sexuality, to racism and classism, Virgie gives us a crash course on the history and intersectionalities of weight discrimination, and touches on its mental health implications for all of us. Virg...2021-06-1058 min
Well Undone with Lydia AllabyS2, Ep1 Well Undone: Dr Lindo BaconWelcome back to Season 2 of Well Undone! For this special themed Season, we're taking a short intermission from our personal stories, and doing a deep dive on understanding why, for some, weight gain can feel so inexplicably terrifying. From delving into Health at Every Size, to getting to grips with weight stigma, fatphobia and discrimination, this six-episode Season is packed with experts both clinical and academic, to help us understand where this all comes from, and how it plays out in our own lives.Our guest this week is the one and only Dr Lindo...2021-06-0342 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep8 Well Undone: Lydia AllabyAfter an entire Season of delving into the minds of my brilliant guests, it seemed only right that I turn over the mic and offer the same of myself. So with huge thanks to my wonderful friend Alice Shaw (of Episode 1 fame, no less) for allowing a poetic full circle and taking up the mantle of host, our guest this week for our final episode of the Season is… well... me!As is the case for so many others, the role of disordered eating in my life has in many ways been a manifestation of a broader st...2021-02-2558 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep7 Well Undone: Imme LeipnikIn this penultimate episode of Season 1, I couldn’t be more excited to bring you the wonder that is Imme Leipnik.Coming from a childhood of thinking sport and exercise was never ‘something for her’, Imme shares with us the evolution of her relationship with exercise into something she now recognises as being a vital part of maintaining her mental health. She talks honestly and openly about the mental barriers she had to unpick at university to push herself to embrace sport in a different way, and the role exercise has played in the ups and downs of her...2021-02-1847 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep6 Well Undone: Ellie MillerOur guest this week is the brilliant Ellie Miller. No eating disorders, no exercise obsessions, Ellie brings us back to the very core of the podcast – we don’t have to have a ‘problem’, to have a problem.Approaching life from a place of a balanced, enjoyable relationship with food, Ellie shares with us her reflections on how diet culture really leaves no one unscathed. We talk about the powerful impact of how who we choose to follow on social media dictates our perception of health, her fleeting love affair with the world of fad dieting, and the turb...2021-02-1139 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep5 Well Undone: Niall TillerOur guest this week is Niall Tiller, a late-twenties, London-based paramedic.There are few things that rile me up more than the suggestion that pressures around body image are 'just for women', and that men 'have it easy'. Whilst no doubt the challenges across the gender line are different, it goes without saying that damaging societal body image expectations and gender norms in no way discriminate. And if we think there is stigma around women talking about it, the stigma for men remains so much more.So as Season 1's exceptionally brave, sole male guest...2021-02-0448 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep4 Well Undone: Beth GeorgeThis week, we are joined by Beth George. Looking at the world through a slightly different mental health lens this week, Beth shares with us her experience of growing up - and still living with - challenging compulsive tendencies, which in adulthood, have led to a complex myriad of rules when it comes to food, exercise and her body. We delve into the ups and downs of her mental health journey, when she first became conscious of the pressures of diet culture, and the point in her life when she started to focus her more controlling tendencies on changing...2021-01-2851 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep3 Well Undone: BamIn this week's episode of Well Undone, we are joined by Bam, who shares with us her journey from an intensely insecure youngster desperate to achieve the thin ideal, to becoming a woman who embraces herself with confidence, respect, and a recognition of her own boundaries. Touching on the challenges created by intermittent fasting, the seeming obsession with achievement in Lockdown 1.0, the harmful effects of the British preoccupation with self-deprecation and so much more, we talk about the way in which the path to self-acceptance is never linear, and unpack Bam's learnings from h...2021-01-2142 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep2 Well Undone: Cami DownThis week's guest is Cami Down, who gives us a raw and honest unpacking of her experience of getting a scholarship to attend a majority-male boarding school at the age of 13, and the lifelong impact that went on to have on her relationship with her body. We talk about the oftentimes unspoken yet competitive nature of restrictive eating as teens, the sheer emptiness that comes with starvation-driven weight loss, and the challenge of trying to break away from the narratives of diet culture, regardless of a logical understanding of their irrationality. And if that wasn't enough...2021-01-1452 minWell Undone with Lydia AllabyS1, Ep1 Well Undone: Alice ShawMy guest this week is Alice Shaw, a mid-twenties City lawyer who talks honestly and powerfully about her experience of juggling life alongside the world of eating disorders. She shares how she first fell down the slippery slope of restrictive eating, her experience with therapy, the impact that her eating disorder has had on her relationships, and so much more.If you are personally struggling with any of the issues discussed in this episode, there are resources out there to help. A great first port of call, if you are in the UK, is the charity BEAT...2021-01-0443 min